Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody attributes tenacity, as a moral quality, to the breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented in this volume, also connote various spiritual attributes to the mind of men. Thus...
...Danzig's Nazi rowdies. Already drafted, this protest had been scoffed at by the Nazi orators from Berlin who roared that: "The League cannot consider protests from an insignificant minority!" Not insignificant was 40.1%. From London to Moscow this week European editors referred to "Hitler's heaviest moral setback since the Blood Purge." In Germany, after Danzig returns were known, no German of any prominence would comment. The official Press, obliged to rave at somebody, raved against Danzig's onetime Nazi Premier Dr. Rauschning who appealed last week for anti-Nazi votes. When Danzig Nazi gangsters threatened...
...students and Faculty men who have given moral and financial...
...present opportunity at Stresa, probably Europe's long chance for peace, is allowed to lapse through the maddening dalliance of British statesmen, Great Britain must assume moral responsibility for the next great war. It is a responsibility which a confused world shifted from her to Germany in 1918. The spectacle of Hitler waving at Stalin with an olive branch in his hand and a machine-gun up his sleeve, while Great Britain politely looks the other way, is proving to be no sedative for a Europe suffering from its worst case of jitters since...
...might as well have come from Mars as from his native Samoa. Like any Martian visitor he landed in San Francisco, intelligent, stiltedly educated, highly moral. But he had little money and he did not know the customs of the country. He was having a fine time, however, and thought everyone was as nice as could be, until one fine day a strapping girl persuaded him to go swimming with nothing on. A policeman ran him in, the girl's brother got a gang together and beat him up. Disillusion dawning, Uan went away from there...